Feb 29, 2016
The 5 Hottest Instagays to Follow This Week
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While Instagram is a great place to see what kinds of selfies all your best friends are taking, and to distract yourself from work with cute dogs and cats, it remains one of the best places to peep on some of the world’s prettiest Instagays. So to spice up your daily photo scroll – here are Dandy Dick’s picks for the hottest hunks on Instagram this week. Follow now and thank us later.
Feb 26, 2016
Here’s Every Performance of a Gay Man that Won an Oscar
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There’s a joke that usually crops up around Twitter each Oscar season that the Academy Awards are like the Superbowl for the gays. Yet as much as the Academy can count on gay men to be a loyal segment of their fanbase, it certainly has done little to represent them in the awarded films. There are a few (literally, a few) exceptions, proving that every now and then they pay attention to a queer character or two.
Feb 24, 2016
How to Host the Perfect Oscar Party
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Blog of the day
This is it: Oscar Viewing Party time, aka the gay Super Bowl (you’d think the Tony Awards would be the gay Super Bowl, but no one cares about musicals unless they’re on live TV and you can hate-tweet them). This is the one night where dad movies like Bridge of Spies and The Martian square off against mom movies like Brooklyn and Room. Now, going in, you must accept that the Oscars are inherently stupid. The actual best movies and performances are never honored. Alfred Hitchcock never got one and neither did Johnny from Airplane! (the single greatest performance yet put on celluloid). Seriously, how do you not give THIS an Academy Award?
Feb 22, 2016
On Nick Jonas and Pandering to the Gay Community
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As most empowered divas of the music world know, the best kinds of fans to have are the gay fans. No demographic has more excitement, loyalty, and downright passion than the gays. It’s what has allowed the careers of otherwise forgettable pop stars to live on in eternal infamy, endlessly reinvigorating careers with blind faith. But the relationship between pop star and gay fan is a two-way street; the significantly darker side of this exchange exists when a musician caters to a queer fan base, using their love and support for purely personal gain. This proves especially hurtful when said musician gives little to nothing back to the queer community. Which brings us to Nick Jonas.
